@thane15 @Frobisher @Whisht et al, loving the more, shall we say, tangential Bowie refs!  I had the lyrics of Space Oddity bouncing around in my head whilst watching Oxygen – floating round the tin can, and then ‘Helmets on’ which is actually in the script although whether that qualifies as a quote being so brief and functional I don’t know.

Oops, bungled `Edit’ and have two posts…

Like @Whisht, I’ve pretty much thrown in the towel and I’m now inclining to Missy or the Master in the Vault. Perhaps this was pointed out earlier and I missed it, but a late thought from Knock, Knock,' was it an accident that the being/thing in the Vault was playingFur Elise’ when the Doctor was outside…[Read more]

@whisht

Yes! That’s it! @Thane15 – check Whisht’s link and follow it for awesome Ms Imbruglia. It is very funny.

Absolute Radio has been playing the Catfish song for a while now. It is screaming to be turned into a football chant:

“Tottenham are over-rated

There never gonna win the league”.

@whisht

And then there’s this:

@thane15  Point taken (again), lots of people have been there for the Doctor.  The eternal question is who will be there for him next!  It’s a passing of the baton!  😀

@whisht I think I understand what you’re saying — that his blindness won’t be played as something that keeps him from doing good, and/or has to be cured in order to solve a cri…[Read more]

@Arch

Im still pretty convinced, that whatevers in the vault is a child,

This would certainly fit with what we saw, or rather heard. Fur Elise is a relatively simple piece for a child to master and, when interest is sparked in the prospect of a new story involving children being eaten, we get the jaunty ‘Pop Goes the Weasel’. *   Some children ar…[Read more]

Oh my, @Whisht! That is fabulous bonkerising! 🙂

The fact 12 seems to have grown into a parent/grandparent figure, the lines about regeneration and not leaving your charge behind. If 13 did travel back in time as a child to get 12’s help, maybe 13’s TARDIS is also in the vault with him or her. That would tie into Nardole’s suggestion to Bill to…[Read more]

@whisht

I will spare you that, but don’t think you chickening out has gone un-noted!

Amazed nobody has thought of this:

Ahhhh, yeah, this is what I love…keep the bonkers theories going.  (:

So, my Metacrisis theory, way too crazy?

@whisht Nice theory.  Alan Moore, ha ha!  Can’t beat that.

@whisht

Alan Moore

As bonkers theories go, it is probably impossible to beat that one!

@Whisht

Yes – Alan Moore is in the vault.

By Jove! I think you’ve cracked it(1)!

(1) For some values of “cracked”.

@whisht

Do you dare look up Tony Orlando & Dawn?

Edit: or Mary Hopkin.

@Whisht

Obviously nods towards First Doctor and Susan again (leaving one’s charge behind…).

And not just Susan, if you think of all the others who have travelled with him and whom he has left behind, whether freely or reluctantly or unwillingly, to continue on their own way without him.  Maybe I am reading too much into the Doctor’s subdued…[Read more]

@whisht Thanks, I was the one who asked the question about the sinking boot. Good answer!

@fivefaces I loved “Midnight” … so I would be impressed if that were the being kept in the vault.

So Thin Ice. Generally loved the look and feel of this one. After Smile, which seemed almost a two-hander for the majority of it’s run time, this one seemed bursting with life with the kids, revellers, performers a moustache twirler of villain and assorted henchmen.

I think the relatively simple story with so many repeated aspects does allow a g…[Read more]

@thane15, @janetteB, @mudlark, @whisht

For a wonderfully self-reflexive statement on interpreting Shakespeare, it is hard to beat this clip of Joan Plowright introducing Olivier’s Hamlet to a school class:

@nick I don’t think Gallifrey is a democracy in Moffat’s version either though being alien and supposedly a very old civilisation perhaps they have come up with a better system of governance, something we haven’t thought of yet. My impression is however that Gallifrey is a highly rigid, classist society ruled by a upper class elite who don’t die…[Read more]

@nick

Average life expectancy was 51 for a male, 55 for a female.

Bear in mind that this is skewed by high infant mortality. If you made it to adulthood you had a good chance of living into your sixties (which is why, eventually, the retirement age was eventually set at 65. No cynicism there at all).

@whisht

I warned you.

I WARNED YOU!!

@whisht:

– the vault “what’s he told you?” seemed important; this won’t be a monster to fear, but one that deserves our sympathy. Maybe something that has taken 50 years to ‘cook’ (such as a body to be possessed by the next regeneration..?)

Hmm, this would be in keeping with the “monsters” so far this season…Pilot!Heather, the Vardy, the lo…[Read more]

<span class=”useratname”>@whisht</span> Omg i’m so so sorry I never saw your msg here before! … I’m still learning to use a forum ^^”

I love the music you posted, I actually Oceans, somebody actually made a Doctor/Rose music video with this music and though I already liked the song and loved the ship (not just Ten/Rose, Doctor/Rose, I don’t…[Read more]